Card-case for freight-cars



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P. J. COLE & E. W. GRIEVES. CARD CASE FOR FREIGHT 0143s.

N0. 444,240. Patented Jan; 6, 1891.

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FRANCIS J. COLE AND EDYVARD \V. GRIEVES, OF BALTIHORE, MARYLAND.

CARD-CASE FOR FREIGHT-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,240, dated January 6, 1891.

Application filed July 2, 1890. Serial No. 357,516. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, FRANCISJ. COLE and EDWARD W. GRIEVES, both citizens of the United States, and residents of Baltimore, Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Card-Cases for Freight-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is to make a light, strong, compact, and cheap case for holding cards upon the sides of freight-cars; and this object we attain in the manner hereinafter set forth, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in Which Figure 1 is a face view of a card-case for freight cars constructed in accordance with our invention, part of the cover of the case being broken away. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of part of the side of a car with our improved card-case placed thereon, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the cover of the case removed therefrom.

The cases now generally employed for holding cards upon the sides of freight-cars are made of cast-iron,\vhich,- besides being heavy, are liable to be fractured. Hence such cases are frequently destroyed by the rough usage to which they are subjected.

In carrying out our invention, therefore, we make the card-case wholly of sheet metal, preferably sheet-steel, the body of the case consisting of a plate A, having its central portion recessed or dished, so as to form a receptacle for the card, the front of this recessed or dished portion being mostly cut away, as shown in Fig. 1, so as to permit of the desired inspection of the card. The up per portion of the plate is also cut away, so as to form alongitudinal slot a, and in the plate at the opposite ends of this slot, are formed pockets 1) for the reception of the projecting pivot lugs or ears d of the cap or cover B of the case, this cap or cover consisting of a simple plate bent to the form of a segment of a circle and havingan upturned flange f at the rear, the opposite ends of the curved or bent portion of the plate being cut away so as to form the pivot lugs or ears (I, as shown in Fig. 3. This coverplate is passed through the recess a from the rear before the application of the plate A to the side of the car, the lugs or ears d resting in the offsets or pockets 1) of the plate, so that after said plate is applied to the side of the car the cap or cover plate will be pivoted thereto and can be readily turned up to permitof the insertion or removal of the card, the cap, however, effectually preventing the entrance of rain or snow into the case from above.

Having thus described our invention, we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The within described card case for freight-cars, the same consisting of a plate of sheet metal having a central portion struck up and cut away in front so as to form an open case or cage for the reception of the card, said struck-11p portion having bars extending across the opening therein, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of the sheet metal plate having a central struck-up portion for the reception of the card, a slot at the upper end, and opposite pockets or offsets, with a cap or cover consisting of acurved plate of sheet metal passing through said slot and having opposite ears or lugs adapted to the pockets or offsets of the body-plate, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANCIS J. COLE. EDXVARD GRIEVES.

Witnesses:

MURRAY HANSON, WILLIAM H. BERRY. 

